yul - mtl

public design competition

Montréal à l'oreille / Montreal By Ear - A juried urban-planning ideas competition to revitalize the highway corridor between Montreal's Trudeau airport and downtown, at present a sequence of raised highways built in the 1960's and 70's. Our proposal, in contrast to numerous proposals for large-scale urban master plans, was to create an infrastructure based on smart-phones and low-powered FM radio (to be heard in the taxi), to disseminate audio-art. A series of works would be commissioned specific to the urban areas currently 'overflown' by the highway. Montréal à l'oreille is a voyage through sound across the history, geography, topography and ecology of Montreal: an auditory space and time-machine. (honourable mention)